EU authorises three more ports for grain export

The European Union has authorised three new ports that may be used to export intervention grain, its Official Journal said on Thursday. The addition of the ports, the northern Adriatic outlets of Rijeka and Split in Croatia and Romania's Black Sea port of Constanza, would help landlocked EU countries export their cereals and avoid extra cost to the EU budget, the Journal said. "Where member states have no seaport, a decision may be taken ... to finance the lowest transport costs between the place of storage and the actual place of exit," it said. "The Romanian port of Constanza and the Croatian ports of Rijeka and Split may be regarded as places of exit."
Rijeka and Split were also traditional ports used to export grain by some central European countries before their accession to the European Union last year, the Journal added.